May 2012
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Watch‘Housing First’ is an approach to ending homelessness that centers on quickly providing homeless people with housing and then providing additional services as needed.
It is an approach first popularized by Sam Tsemberis and Pathways to Housing in New York in the 1990s (Padgett, 2007: 1928), though there were Housing First-like programs emerging elsewhere, including Canada (HouseLink in Toronto)...
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April 2012
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“The feeling that you may have just boarded a Scientology cruise ship is not...”
– Really fascinating article all about the phenomenon that is TED.
http://www.afr.com/p/lifestyle/review/flat_out_talking_at_club_ted_pi8xrho3fx79WCiGkv1VeO
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WatchAt the start of the year I spoke at the kick-off event for the 2012 Vibewire fastBREAK series on the topic of Beginnings. You can watch all the five-minute talks from the event in this YouTube playlist - fastBREAK: Beginnings.
I wanted my 5-minute talk to serve as a provocation to members of the audience to nurture their creative and imaginative capabilities, and to put those capabilities to work...
March 2012
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“The world is full of order that doesn’t necessarily deserve our respect....”
– Designer Kelli Anderson reflecting on her practice of ‘disruptive wonder’. Worth taking the time to watch her TEDxPhoenix talk below:
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Making spectacles of ourselves « the {tiny}... →
Ummm, cute attack
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Watchshanghaifiction:
Zhang Shouwang of Beijing band Carsick Cars plays a takeaway show for us on the roof of his 23-floor apartment building (via dabaoge.net)
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December 2011
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What can machines tell us about being human?
In...
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“On current evidence exercise is clearly the best method for increasing useful...”
– This is the conclusion of a piece over on PsyBlog, Which Cognitive Enhancers Really Work: Brain Training, Drugs, Vitamins, Meditation or Exercise?
Ultimately, there is little conclusive scientific evidence to support the oft-claimed beneficial effects of brain training, drugs, vitamins or...
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This was the number one streamed track of 2011 in...
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“The history of cultural progress is, almost without exception, a story of one...”
– This quote comes from Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter, in the Guardian article Eureka moments are very, very rare.
It reminds me of Thomas S Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific...
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I’ve linked to The Big Ideas podcast before...
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“The First Place is your home, and the Second Place is your office. You have...”
– A great article from Kevin Purdy on Fast Company (Why In-Person Socializing Is A Mandatory To-Do Item) that delves into the very sound reasons that you need to get out more and meet people face-to-face.
In 2012 I am formalising this time on a weekly basis a little more. I already have a couple of...
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“It takes between a week and 12 days to build up a tolerance and dependency on...”
– How to break your daily caffeine habit and use coffee strategically
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Sunday Surplus | 25th December, 2011
Burnt, by Lovers Town
Superheroine Breast Cancer Awareness ads
Christmas is just around the corner, anti drink-driving ads
Branding and how it works in the social media age infographic
Facebook ruling gives media enquiry purpose
Democracy needs ignorant people, says science
A murder foretold: unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy
Tiny $25 computer is designed to teach...
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SOCY 151: Foundations of Modern Social Theory →
One industry that is already undergoing change and which is going to be even more radically transformed in the near future is education.
If you are interested in sociology, then this free course offered by Yale is worth checking out.
As telepresence technologies and collaborative reading platforms become more sophisticated, alongside access to online educational materials, the physical...
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WatchI work at Host and love the fact that the agency created this Christmas card for our clients. It involves lasers, rear projection, camera mods, and some lovely front-end dev in Flash.
Oh, and 50 Hosties singing :)
Happy Holidays everyone.
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Rambling, raucous, and rough.
But so charming.
WatchGamification has been a key trend this year and looks set to be big news in 2012.
This TED talk from July 2010 goes into some more detail on what a game layer on top of the world might look like.
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WatchWas wondering what Aphex Twin (aka Richard James) has been up to.
Seems he’s been busy remote controlling a whole orchestra:
Richard James came up with the idea of controlling a 48 piece string section and a 24 strong choir by remote control, using midi controllers, lots of headphones and some remote visual cues, after being commissioned to write some pieces for the European culture...